Sling does indeed allow multiple people to be streaming at the same time. Im watching in my room while my girlfriend is in living room watching right now, soooo, not sure why you think you cant do that. Possibly they dont allow on free trial but you can for sure do it.
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Sling does indeed allow multiple people to be streaming at the same time. Im watching in my room while my girlfriend is in living room watching right now, soooo, not sure why you think you cant do that. Possibly they dont allow on free trial but you can for sure do it.
Will there be *SPAM* right int he guide like your Satellite service?
If yes, then no thanks.
If yes, then no thanks.
Do you know what it means?
For one, it means that T-Mobile cannot deny Direct TV on their binge on service.
Actually signed up for a trial of this yesterday before I realized they don't have an app for Apple TV and I don't have a PlayStation, Fire or Roku. Trying to decide if I want to pick one of those up to give this a go.
They do allow multiple streams, just not on channels in the orange tier. And that's where my family would spend the majority of our time.
I agree.
Also, when people are posting what they want for what price, they are not mentioning whether they are including ads or not. Anyone that think they are going to get their 10-15 favorite channels for $20 without ads, it probably will never happen.
I wonder how much longer the cable companies are going to holdout on competing with Sling/Vue/etc.? The key selling point for Sling or Vue over traditional cable is the business strategy; lower cost, no contract, no hidden fees, better UX, customer service that isn't actively hostile. The traditional cable companies could adopt these business strategies and compete with the new internet cable services with almost no overhead cost. However, history tells us this is unlikely.
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The PlayStation Vue login does work with all of the Apple TV channel apps for the channels you get.
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The PlayStation Vue login does work with all of the Apple TV channel apps for the channels you get.
It's delivered over any network you want. Wired or wireless. With the added benefit of no data cost if you are on att wireless and in the directv app.
That's weak. Make a box, make it log onto ATT with no other contract needed, and get the direct tv service. Only way to beat Vue. ATT already has unlimited data for direct tv customers to stream.
Net Neutrality is about any kind of special treatment (including pricing), not just speed. And anyway, it does slow others down because more people will be streaming stuff.
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I'm wondering that too. I can think of a few things:
- Same content for everyone, so people aren't loading the same thing more than once.
- Download only, so no bandwidth allocated to upload.
- Possibly better compression since it's meant for TV only, not generalized IP.
But all those channels still seem like a lot of bandwidth. Can someone explain it fully?
Edit: An answer on Reddit suggests that it's the first thing that does it, but I didn't think it through all the way at first. The answer didn't say the rest of this, but I'm thinking this is why: I was thinking about one household, but the cable provider supports millions of customers. I assume TV takes a lot of bandwidth. Running a high bandwidth line to each customer is trivial. The only reason it's hard to do that for Internet is that people can't share their bits, so their backbone (or local branch) has to support (Internet bandwidth per customer) * (number of customers on branch or backbone) total, whereas TV is just (Internet bandwidth per customer).
On top of that, I suppose the latency for TV doesn't matter much, so they can focus more easily on bandwidth, if it still matters at this point.
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This question was all ready answered by a few posters, pretty much all saying the same thing, but with different levels of complexity.
I have not tried it but the video quality was something I wondered about and figured it was not up to par, is it still low quality with newly released dvd movies as I am aware that movies in theatres are usually cam quality but how about DVD releases?
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playstation vue is good, much better than sling tv. they even work with tv network content allowing the subscriber to sign in with their vue creditials to watch content via the web. (just like traditional cable providers)
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not all cord cutters are picky over channels. some of us just don't want to rent outdated cable/satelite boxes. we want to consume content on devices of our choosing.
So how will this jive with their data caps on home service? I need to dump them on principle even though I come no where close to using the allotted 600GB.
I agree, but when they're looking at cord cutters, that's what they are competing with....
Brighthouse charges me $58 for 25Mbps. 50 Mbps is $78.
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HBO is $15 minimum. Brighthouse used to charge 19 for HBO last year. must have raised to 20 now
You cannot compete with theft. People who steal content are going to do so no matter what.
^^^This.^^^ Unless you can make the ease of obtaining media legally surpass that of obtaining it illegally. As proven with Music thanks to iTunes.
Ahhh, I see what your saying. Still, it would only cost $5 to add multi streaming to your orange channels. So for a extra $5 everyone could stream same channels at same time and..................they would give you 15 additional channels. In other words......blue tier. You get all orange channels plus 15 more plus simultaneous streaming on up to 3 devices for $25. So to think that you liked the service they provided but $5 was all that was holding you back, just seems a bit odd IMO.
From everything I have seen on their website the multiple streams that you can add on are just on Latino and International channels.
Can I watch Sling TV on multiple devices at the same time?
You can watch Sling TV on all of your favorite compatible devices. The number of devices on which Sling content can be watched at the same time varies based on the Sling service.
If you subscribe to our Sling Orange service you can enjoy one stream at a time. Any extras you add to your Sling Orange service will be included in your single stream.
If you subscribe to our Sling Blue service you can enjoy up to three streams of these channels at one time! This means you can enjoy FOX on your big screen, while your computer streams AMC, and catch up on the news with CNN on your mobile device. Any extras you add to your Sling Blue service will be included in your three streams.
HBO® is available as an extra for both Sling Orange and Sling Blue. Regardless of whether you choose Sling Orange or Sling Blue, you will be able to watch HBO® content on up to three devices simultaneously.
Not true, maybe you should call a customer service rep as your not able to see it on website. Its pretty clear. From the website -
And as I said in my original post, I was actually doing it while I was posting here so I know for a FACT you can.
Here is a link, if you care, if you dont really give a sh@t I guess I'l stop trying to convince you.
http://help.sling.com/articles/en_U...s=Search&pn=1&getcategoryname=&getParentName=
Not really sure why you're getting upset over this. Maybe the link on the site is worded odd, but it reads like the orange channels can only go on a single stream at a time. ESPN, which is really all I watch and in the orange tier, is one I specifically tried before and when I tried to watch it on two different devices the first one would quit playing telling me that I had hit my limit on the number of simultaneous streams. The blue channels do have the multiple streams, but I wouldn't hardly watch any of those channels anyway (although I did have the Orange + Blue package during my testing).
I will reach out to their customer service to get a definitive answer on this.
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Follow up...
Sling replied to my email (pretty quick turn around on that....good on them) and confirmed that the channels in the orange tier are limited to a single stream.
Including a copy of their response in case anyone else ever needs the question answered.
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Sorry for the late reply.
From what I have seen, yes. The video on released movies is dramatically better. I gave up on it a month ago simply because the only thing I cared to watch on it that Netflix and HBO Now don't already provide are non-released movies (poor quality) and international soccer (mostly poor quality).
Additionally, using Kodi without the very best internet connection and Android device is like owning a PC... constant maintenance and tweaks when things are updated.
Well, that's a pretty absolute "no matter what".
Steeling takes time and effort and some of those people are paying for memberships or download sites (or something). Make it cheap enough to work and work in an easier way and people will buy it.
I can make a DVR cheaper than a TiVo (probably more storage and more features too) but the extra cost for convenience makes it a choice.
I own some of the movies on BluRay but when I had the convenience of watching them on prime, I didn't bother to get them out; I'm sitting there confident I already owned a higher quality copy but Amazon makes it so easy I didn't bother to get up and find the discs and deal with the inputs (and zipping through warnings and previews). Convenience factors in...